Investment Summary

Amadeus Capital Partners and Advent International Invest In Creditas

On December 18, 2020, venture capital firm Amadeus Capital Partners and private equity firm Advent International invested in financial services company Creditas

Investment Highlights
  • This is Amadeus Capital Partners’ 2nd and Advent International’s 31st transaction in the Financial Services sector.
  • This is Amadeus Capital Partners’ 3rd and Advent International’s 24th transaction in Brazil.

Investment Summary

Date 2020-12-18
Target Creditas
Sector Financial Services
Investor(s) Amadeus Capital Partners
Advent International
Deal Type Venture

Target

Creditas

Sao Paulo, Brazil
Creditas is a financial services platform that provides loans, insurance, and investment solutions leveraging home equity, auto equity, and payroll. Creditas was founded in 2012 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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Investor(S) 2

Investor

Amadeus Capital Partners

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Venture Capital Firm
Founded 1997
PE ASSETS 1.3B USD
Size Large
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION

Amadeus Capital Partners is an early late-stage investor in high growth European technology companies. Specific areas of interest include AI & machine learning, online consumer services, cybersecurity, digital health and medical technology, digital media, enterprise SaaS, fintech, and insurtech. Amadeus Capital Partners was formed in 1997 and is based in London, United Kingdom.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 66 of 68
Sector: Financial Services M&A 2 of 2
Type: Venture M&A Deals 57 of 59
Country: Brazil M&A 3 of 3
Year: 2020 M&A 14 of 14
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2020-12-18 V7

London, United Kingdom

V7 is a developer of an AI platform that gives machines human-like visual cognition. Its Auto-Annotate technology enables automatic object segmentation without pre-training, making the creation and deployment of vision AI models faster, simpler, and more cost-effective. V7 was founded in 2018 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

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2021-01-08 Xampla

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Xampla is a materials technology company creating plant-protein-based alternatives to plastics. Its natural, biodegradable materials replace single-use plastics such as bags, sachets, and flexible films, as well as microplastics in liquids and personal care products. Xampla was founded in 2018 and is based in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

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Investor

Advent International

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1984
PE ASSETS 91.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Advent is a global private equity firm that targets investments in North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Advent's emerging market efforts are concentrated in Central Europe and Latin America. Advent seeks transactions valued between $50 million and $5 billion and can commit up to $2 billion of equity capital per investment. Broad areas of interest include business & financial services, retail & consumer, technology, media, & telecoms, healthcare & life sciences, and industrial. Prospective transaction types include buyouts, growth capital financings, take privates, and recapitalizations. Advent was formed in 1984 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 299 of 353
Sector: Financial Services M&A 31 of 36
Type: Venture M&A Deals 9 of 13
Country: Brazil M&A 24 of 26
Year: 2020 M&A 15 of 15
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2020-12-15 Zenoti

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Zenoti is a developer of cloud-based enterprise software and embedded payments designed to empower the beauty and wellness industry. Zenoti was founded in 2010 and is based in Bellevue, Washington.

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2021-02-03 CCC Intelligent Solutions

Chicago, Illinois, United States

CCC Intelligent Solutions is a Software as a Service provider to the automotive, insurance, and collision repair industries. CCC brings together what matters most connections into the industry’s leading automotive claims network, superior productivity through the innovative cloud, mobile, hyper-scale technologies, and apps, and insights to make the best decisions. CCC Intelligent Solutions was founded in 1980 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

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